Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church
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Re-booting and Virus Protection
We’ve been looking at the sin of the human race using the analogy of a virus in a computer system. It enters insidiously, spreads rapidly and becomes destructive. Sometimes it turns deadly, as evidenced by the later stories of murder, polygamy,...
Safe and Sound through the Spirit
Sometimes we use the phrase “safe and sound,” praying for travelers, or those with risky jobs: “bring them back safe and sound.” By safe we mean alive; by sound we mean healthy, unaffected, unstained. The work of the Holy Spirit is to bring us ...
A Call to Service
During this season of Lent, we are going take a little break from Genesis to explore John 13-17, spending time with Jesus and his disciples in the upper room, the night before his crucifixion. We’ll listen to what Jesus has on his mind, includi...
Living by the Spirit
Two weeks ago, we talked about sanctification, the work of the Holy Spirit done within us to cleanse us and cause growth. While sanctification is a work of the Spirit, it is one work of God with which we must cooperate. Our look at the Holy Spi...
A Call to Comfort
How do we find comfort? Some try to find it in a new car, or by throwing themselves into their job. They find it in their spouse or a certain type of lifestyle. Others find it in a bottle, pill, or needle. Some in an enlarging bank account. Oth...
Loving by the Spirit
The gifts of the Spirit are fascinating and exciting; to be a gifted person means to receive accolades. Perhaps for these reasons, the gifts of the Spirit often receive far more attention than the fruit of the Spirit. Yet it is the evidence of ...
A Call to Fruitfulness
The passion week had begun with crowds littering road with palm branches before King Jesus, and now we find Jesus talking in word pictures, calling his disciples to act like vine branches. So the Passion week moves from palm branches, known mos...
A Tale of Two Sinners
As we near the Passion Week of Jesus, we encounter in the story of Jesus’ suffering two glaring sinners: Peter and Judas. Matthew puts these stories together for a purpose: to compare the sins and to contrast the responses. What is Matthew tryi...
A Call to the Magnetic Cross
There was a certain magnetism to Jesus on Palm Sunday. But a few days after Jesus’ seeming highwater mark of magnetism, with the adoring crowds, Jesus died like a criminal on a Roman cross, and lost that worldly sort of attraction. Yet I want t...
The Passion of Christ
As we begin the “passion week,” we focus on the suffering of Jesus, particularly on the cross. The Catechism focuses our attention in that direction, asking what his suffering was like and why he was crucified. We are going to explore that suff...
A Call to Remember
A look at how Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples the night before going to the cross.
A Call to Go and Tell
Over the Lenten season, we’ve spent some time in the Upper Room, as Jesus called his disciples to service, comfort, fruitfulness, peace, and remembrance. Yet the disciples were still confused about the meaning of all this. They hadn’t grasped t...
Living in the Face of Death
On Resurrection Sunday evening, we’ll look at how the Apostle Paul shares the impact of Jesus’ death and resurrection with the church in Thessalonica, and the difference it makes to face death as a Christian. Scripture: 1 The...
Experiencing God at Work Around You
Henry Blackby, in Experiencing God, writes: "One of the greatest tragedies among God's people is that while they have a deep longing to experience Him, they are experiencing God day after day but do not know how to recognize Him." So how ...
The Church's One Foundation
Jesus and his Apostles retreat to Caesarea Philippi, where we see a turning point in Jesus' ministry - all events that follow lead to a cross - and the Apostles' discipleship: Will they follow him to the end? Will they maintai...
Experiencing God in a Love Relationship
When we talk about knowing and doing God’s will, we sometimes divorce it from the relationship itself. Yet it is the relationship that God created us for, not the work. More than anything else, He wants us to love him with our whole being (Deut...
Living in Peace
The Thessalonian church was worried about Christ’s return being like a sneak attack, catching them off guard (and making them liable to judgment!). Not wanting to be trapped by a false sense of peace, they had no peace. So Paul reassures them o...
Experiencing God in His Invitation
This next stage in experiencing God may cause us to laugh, or cry, depending on what God has in store for us. Reality #3 of Experiencing God (Henry Blackaby): God invites you to become involved with His work. We’ll look at three key phrases: Go...
How to Be Right with God
Years ago, there was an extremely talented law school student whose life was changed by a couple of scary events: his friend’s sudden death and his own narrow escape from a lightning strike. Suddenly he became terribly afraid for his own salvat...
Experiencing God as He Speaks
Have you ever said: if only I could have lived when Jesus was on earth and been able to talk with him? If only God would speak to me as He did Abraham, Moses, prophets, etc. Another reality of experiencing God is that God has never stopped spea...